THIS WEEKEND WAS THE SECOND WOMAN'S MARCH, BOTH ACROSS
THE US AND ACROSS THE WORLD AND ACROSS THE ENTIRE WORLD A
LOT OF PEOPLE TOOK TO THE STREETS.
WELL OVER 1 MILLION PEOPLE IN TOTAL ACTUALLY.
WE HAVE SOMEBODY OF THIS GOING TO SHOW YOU A FEW AERIAL PHOTOS.
I WAS AT THE LA MARGIN I BELIEVE IT WAS THE SINGLE LARGEST.
OVER 500,000 PEOPLE, WHICH IS AMAZING BUT ALSO LESS THAN
LAST YEARÖ BECAUSE LAST YEAR.
HUGE MARGINS THERE.
NEW YORK CITY HAD 200,000,
SAN FRANCISCO HAD BETWEEN 50 AND 100,000.
OAKLAND NOT FAR AWAY, 40,000.
CHICAGO HAD 300,000 WHICH IS ACTUALLY MORE THAN THEY HAD LAST
YEAR AT THE FIRST ONE AND THEN THERE'S THOUSANDS GATHERING AND
ROMAN LONDON AND PARIS AND SYDNEY MY OTHER CITIES IN
AUSTRALIA AND THEN THERE'S WELL OVER 200 IN THE US ALONE THAT
WERE TALKING ABOUT PHILLY, HOUSTON, DALLAS, SAN
ANTONIO, ALL OVER.
AND IT WAS INCREDIBLY INSPIRING.
NUMBER OF GREAT SPEAKERS, I TOOK A LOT OF PHOTOS AND IT WAS
AWESOME.
I WENT WITH MY GIRLFRIEND AND SOME OF OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE
ALSO ACTIVISTS AND IT WAS VERY INSPIRING AND THEN YOU GET
BACK HOME AND YOU GO ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND YOU SEE THE RIGHT
WING ATTACKS IS GETS IT JUST LIKE LAST YEAR WHICH ARE
DISHEARTENING AT LEAST BRIEFLY.
THE AMOUNT OF DISRESPECT LOGIC THESE PEOPLE.
YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO GET PEOPLE IN THE US TO MARCH?
TO ACTUALLY GO SOMEWHERE AND TO DO IT TWO YEARS IN A ROW
AND TO GET 1 MILLION+ PEOPLE IS AMAZING BUT REMINDS ME ACTUALLY
A LOT OF THE ARGUMENTS THAT WERE CAST AGAINST OCCUPY WALL STREET.
WHAT IT ACTUALLY THEREFORE, THEY DON'T HAVE ONE LEADER, THEY
DON'T HAVE ONE POLICY THEY CARE ABOUT AND SO THEY DISREGARDED.
UNDER JUMP IN FOR ONE 2ND.
YOU GET 12 GOOFBALLS DRESSED UP IN COLONIAL GEAR AND CALL
NT PARTY RALLY AND YOU'LL GET CABLE NEWS COVERING IT NONSTOP.
WHAT'S THE TEA PARTY DOING?
WHAT ARE ALL 13 OF THEM DOING?
WAS COVERED NONSTOP.
CAN YOU IMAGINE IF THE TEA PARTY GOT 1
MILLION PEOPLE IN THE STREETS?
THEY BE LIKE THIS IS THE GREATEST POLITICAL MOVEMENT
THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.
AND LOOK, I KNOW FOR SOME PEOPLE, EVEN SOME
PROGRESSIVES, WOMEN'S ISSUES SPECIFICALLY ARE NOT OF THE
TOP OF THE LIST AND SO IT'S EASY TO LOOK AT AND SAY WHERE'S
THE PASSION FOR MY PARTICULAR ISSUE BUT I WAS THERE, I
TOOK PICTURES OF THE SIGNS.
WHATEVER ISSUE YOU CARE ABOUT, THERE WERE PEOPLE THERE
MARCHING FOR, PASSIONATE ABOUT IT.
ONE MORE INTERRUPTION.
JUST TO CLOSE THE LOOP ON THE TEA PARTIES, THEIR WAY SAY,
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, ABOUT OCCUPY FOR THIS, WHAT DO
THEY WANT ANYWAY?
THE TEA PARTY CLAIMED THAT THEY WERE AGAINST THE BANK BAILOUTS.
THEY DIDN'T DO A SINGLE PROTEST OF THE BANKS OR THE BAILOUTS.
YOU WANT TO SAY WHAT ARE YOU FOR CONSIDERATION BEEN
SCREAMING THAT FROM THE ROOFTOPS FOR THE TEA PARTY.
THEY FOR BECAUSE THEY WERE MAD ABOUT THE BAILOUTS AND THEY
DID RANDOM THINGS THEY DRESSED IN COSTUMES AND BROUGHT
GUNS AND THEN RELY, I THINK WE ARE ANGRY ABOUT HEALTHCARE.
WHAT?
THEY HAD NO IDEA, THEY ARE THE MODEL OF WHAT THE HELL IS
YOUR POINT BUT LOOK AT THE CONTRAST IN THE COVERAGE.
TOTALLY, AND I WOULD ALSO ARGUE THAT IF YOU EVER FIND
YOURSELF ASKING A PROCESSOR, WOMEN'S MARCH, SOME PEOPLE SAY
THIS ABOUT THE KNEELING THING, WHAT ARE THEY ACTUALLY WANT?
, HAVE YOU CONSIDERED ASKING THEM?
YOU CAN TALK TO THEM.
THEY ARE HOLDING SIGNS ACTUALLY.
YOU CAN PROBABLY SEE SOME HERE.
THERE'S ANTIWAR MESSAGES, ANTI-CAPITALISM,
ANTI-FASCIST, PRO-SCIENCE.
ANOTHER CRITICISM IS THEY'RE JUST MARCHING.
SOME PEOPLE, GENERALLY PEOPLE DON'T LIKE MARCHING AND
IT'S HOT THEY ONLY WALK AROUND LIKE TO SAY IT IS
NOT IMPORTANT BUT I WOULD ARGUE THAT IT IS NOT JUST A MARCH.
I THINK THAT THIS MOVEMENT, WHICH IN ITS PUREST FORM IS
HERE IN THE MARCH IS GOING TO MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN
THE FALL AND SO WE HAVE NUMBERS FOR THAT.
IT'S NOT
JUST MARCHING, IT'S ALSO RUNNING.
YOU CAN LOOK AT A NUMBER OF OTHER GOODS LIKE THAT THAT
ARE HELPING.
THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT SIMPLY MARCHING OR TALKING WHICH
WOULD BE A BIG THING BY ITSELF.
THERE ALSO RUNNING FOR OFFICE AND WHEN THEY DO RUN AND
WHEN THE ELECTION COMES THEY ARE GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE,
A POLL
CAME OUT TODAY, AND THE WOMAN'S VOTE IS GOING
TO BE HUGE.
THAT'S A HUGE SHIFT.
YOU ARE SEEING THERE THAT THERE IS MOVEMENT AMONG A LOT OF
DEMOGRAPHIC OR SO PERHAPS NOT LIKE WOMEN.
IT'S NOT JUST MARCHING, IT'S RUNNING FOR OFFICE, IT'S
SUPPORTING CANDIDATES THAT THEY WILL THEN VOTE FOR, IT'S
DONATING, IS MOBILIZING PEOPLE TO VOTE ON A NUMBER OF
DIFFERENT ISSUES.
THERE WERE GREAT SPEECHES ABOUT DOCTOR, BUT A NUMBER OF
DIFFERENT ISSUES THERE AND SO FOR ME, EVENTS LIKE THIS,
MARGINS LIKE THIS AND WE HAD A NUMBER LAST YEAR, WAY TO
SORT OF RECHARGE, TO GET OUT OF THE WEIRD POLITICAL MEDIA
CAST AND GO AND SEE REAL PEOPLE, REAL ACTIVISTS TRYING TO
MAKE A CHANGE.
I'VE A BUNCH OF THINGS TO SAY.
YOU MENTIONED JUSTICE DEMOCRATS.
SLIGHTLY MORE THAN HALF OF THE CANDIDATES ARE WOMEN IN
THAT GROUP AS WELL AND THEY DIDN'T PICK THEM, AND I
DIDN'T PICK THEM, THE STAFF DID, THEY DIDN'T PICK THEM
BECAUSE THEY ARE WOMEN, THEY PICKED THEM BECAUSE THEY
WERE THE BEST CANDIDATES AVAILABLE IN THOSE RACES.
BY THE WAY, NEARLY HALF ARE MEN.
IT'S AMAZING WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU ACTUALLY PRACTICE DIVERSITY
NOT ENFORCED WAYS BUT A NATURAL WAYS WHEN YOU ACTUALLY LOOK
FOR THE BEST POSSIBLE CANDIDATE AND IT TURNS OUT, THAT
KINDA MATCHES THE POPULATION OF THE US.
IF YOU DON'T PUT BIAS INTO THE EQUATION.
IN TERMS OF THE WOMEN VOTE, WHAT JOHN SAID, I'M GONNA DOUBLE
DOWN ON IT.
JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, THERE'S A 15
POINT LEAD FOR DEMOCRATS AMONG WOMEN.
NOTE TO 35 POINT LEAD.
I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
IN MY LIFETIME.
FOR ONE DEMOGRAPHIC LIKE THAT.
IT'S PRETTY IMPORTANT, 51% OF THE POPULATION.
35 POINT LEAD.
THAT'S HEADING INTO CURRENT AGGRESSION ELECTION SO THE
MOST IMPORTANT FIND YOU ARE SEEING IS RIGHT BEHIND
JOHN, GRAB THEM BY THE MIDTERMS.
THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS LIKE THAT.
THAT IS EXACTLY RIGHT.
BUT IN ORDER TO DO THAT, YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY READ THE
SIGNS AND TALK TO THESE PEOPLE.
AND TALKING ABOUT DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP TALKING TO THEM,
NOT THE RIGHT WING AND HE HAD TO FIND OUT WHAT THE MY VOTERS
CARE ABOUT?
SO WHEN YOU DO WHAT YOU DID TODAY AND YOU DON'T INCLUDE THE
DREAM ACT IN A COMPROMISE YOU ARE GOING TO DRAIN THE
EXCITEMENT OUT AND RIGHT NOW, THE NUMBER ONE REASON WHY THE
DEMOCRATS ARE SLATED TO CLEAN UP IN THESE NEXT ELECTIONS IS
BECAUSE OF EXCITEMENT.
IT'S UP SIX POINTS AMONG DEMOCRATS AND DEMOCRATIC
LEANING INDEPENDENT SINCE NOVEMBER.
THEIR LIKELIHOOD TO VOTE, THEIR CHANCE OF SHOWING UP.
AND ALL OF THESE CATEGORIES IN ALMOST EVERY DEMOGRAPHIC
THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE SAYING THEY ARE GOING TO SHOW A BETTER
DEMOCRATS ARE MUCH HIGHER THAN AVERAGE, MUCH ARE THAN USUAL.
WHY?
THEY ARE FIRED UP THE FIGHT TRUMP IN THE REPUBLICANS,
THAT'S TRUE, BUT THEY ALSO WANT TO BE FIRED UP FOR CHANGE
THAT GOES IN THEIR DIRECTION SO IF YOU SAY, GET FIRED UP,
BUT IF WE WIN, WE ARE NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE
WAY, I'VE SEEN ARTICLES LIKE THAT ALREADY THE DEMOCRATS
ARE TALKING ABOUT, IF WE WIN THIS TIME AROUND, WE HAVE
TO KEEP OUR POWDER DRY SO THAT WE WHEN THE NEXT ELECTIONS 2.
NO, THAT'S THE EXACT WRONG POINT.
YOU HAVE TO DELIVER IF YOU WIN THIS TIME, OTHERWISE YOU
DON'T GET MARCHES LIKE THIS.
YOU DON'T GET ENERGY LIKE THIS AND YOU DON'T GET WINS.
RIGHT NOW, THE DEMOCRATS HAVE A HISTORIC 14 POINT LEAD IN A
GENERIC MASHUP OF DEMOCRATICS VERSUS REPUBLICANS IN
CONGRESS AMONG LIKELY VOTERS.
14 POINTS, THAT'S A LANDSLIDE.
IF THAT'S ACROSS THE COUNTRY, THE NUMBER OF REPUBLICAN LOSSES
MIGHT BE SHOCKING BUT DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP, LISTEN TO
PROGRESSIVES.
GIVE THEM A REASON TO SHOW UP.
IF YOU DON'T, THEY STAY HOME AND YOU LOSE
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